Homeland Insecurity, Part N

Josh Marshall notes that the story on the Iraqi found with disks containing the layouts of some American schools might have a connection to Iraqi civic groups building Iraqi schools, and also doesn't seem to have any connection to terrorist groups. (CNN) If the powers that be are so concerned by finding such information in a somewhat explicable context, you would think that they'd try and get it taken down from the internet. But that would require that the Department of Homeland Security actually be organized and well funded and do some fairly hard work. It's much easier to incite well-timed panic in a few swing states.